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\"strugatsky\"The Doomed City<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, translated by Andrew Bromfield (Chicago Review Press, July 1)<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The Doomed City is set in an experimental city whose sun gets switched on in the morning and switched off at night, bordered by an abyss on one side and an impossibly high wall on the other. Its inhabitants are people who were plucked from twentieth-century history at various times and places and left to govern themselves, advised by Mentors whose purpose seems inscrutable. Andrei Voronin, a young astronomer plucked from Leningrad in the 1950s, is a die-hard believer in the Experiment, even though his first job in the city is as a garbage collector. And as increasingly nightmarish scenarios begin to affect the city, he rises through the political hierarchy, with devastating effect.”<\/p>\n

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\"turtle\"Mr. Turtle<\/strong><\/a><\/em> by Yusaku Kitano, translated by Tyran C. Grillo (Kurodahan Press, July 4)<\/strong><\/p>\n

“In a world of humans, what’s a cyborg turtle to do? It’s a fair question in the bizarre, compelling story of Mr. Turtle. Yusaku Kitano’s science fiction masterpiece, originally published under the eponymous title Kame-kun<\/em>, renews the visionary integrity that won it the Nihon SF Taisho (Japan’s equivalent of the Nebula) Award in 2001 as it finds its way into English at last. Kitano’s protagonist is a hero in a half shell of an altogether different sort, a killing machine designed for combat who wants only to enjoy the simple pleasures of his daily life\u2014working a blue collar job, going to the library, and typing on his laptop\u2014even as he is haunted by vague memories of a war on Jupiter. In order to determine his future, he must piece together his past, navigating an unsympathetic society toward revealing the novel’s philosophical heartbeat. A character study of surreal wit, Mr. Turtle<\/em> delivers action and insight, all the while crafting an homage to its chosen genre unlike any other.”<\/p>\n

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\"rojas\"The Year 200<\/strong><\/a><\/em> by Agust\u00edn de Rojas, translated by Nick Caistor (Restless Books, July 12)<\/strong> [see my review here<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n

“The cult classic from the godfather of Cuban science fiction, Agust\u00edn de Rojas\u2019s The Year 200<\/em> is both a visionary sci-fi masterwork and a bold political parable about the perils of state power.”<\/p>\n

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\"vandermeer\"The Big Book of Science Fiction<\/strong><\/a><\/em>, ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (Vintage, July 12)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Translated stories include:<\/p>\n